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The Easter Island Tablets: Decipherments

A. Carroll


Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol.1 (1892)

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among the head-waters' regions; their clan is dead. The Titiuru replacing them, after the Huarina were gorged and their clan was dead. The Puruhua arose as a tribe in this region of the upperwaters; but the clan of Puruhua is also dead, and no longer found in Yanahuara and among the head-waters, this clan is dead. The Puru branch of these lived longer among head-waters ; but was not so great as the clan that was dead. Among these head-waters, and the dead clans that once were there, were the Yunca, they after four years of struggling with the tribes on the lakes were driven off. Our wise teachers tell us that during four years, barbarians gorged the Chinchas and the Sun's men. The Mallanca and the Colla were also gorged, and other holy men, when they were holding a feast of the Sun, and a potato feast with chants and songs near their temple by the sacred rock, a war began which lasted four years before the tribes were again at peace, during which the Intags, and the Changos, injured the sacred men, and the spirits and the souls suffered and many of the clans were dead before the Sun's men were free from strife. Then the clan from the snowy mountains lighted the Sun-fires and became allies with the rulers of the Chincha, and the Runahuanca, but when the chief of the Puruhua, after six years died. The Cha-Rapa were punished and overwhelmed by the barbarians, who gorged the loved tribe. Then the chief of the Eagle's tribe came to their assistance with his officers and men, and ended the troubles of this tribe, and the Snakes were thus overwhelmed, and their acts ended by the Eagle chief from the mountains, who ended the trouble and set them free. Punished and overwhelmed were those on the coast, and the Quichua were again free. The coast tribes were punished during four years, and overwhelmed. They were punished with, and by the assistance of, the Lady Toa and her husband, of the mountain people; they overthrew the barbarians, the Snakes, as well as assisting in the fights with these Snakes, parts of the Tschimu lands were overrun by these Snakes for five years. These barbarians also gorged the loved tribe of the Challapampa, but, with Toa's assistance, after a time they lighted the Sun-fires and became free men. In after times a prince of Quito in these parts attacked, near Guambacho, a part of the Tschimu-Canchua people, and these near Hua-Rapa, another portion of the Tschimu, and also the men of a free people__the Huama; afterwards this prince attacked the Guamachuco, related to the peoples of the upper head-waters' districts. Then there was an intervention of the Eagle chiefs from Puna Island and from Hua-rapa, and the Huama men again became free; but Ata, the prince, again attacked the Challapampa (a people of the fishing-flats) and the Guamachuco, while one of his chiefs went off and attacked Rapa, and took it, and also the holy men of the Cha-Rapa. Then the chief of the Eagles tribes being dead, the people of the head-waters and those of Yanahuara were made

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